If you are like most people, you want things done. You´ve got goals, you´ve got a to-do-list, you've got work to do. And - nobody will do it if it´s not you.
So what does it mean if Lao Tzu said in the Tao Te Ching: "Do nothing, and everything will be done."? How could that be?
Well, this is not meant to be understood literally. This is about not forcing anything in your life. It´s a symbol for how nature works, which we are a part of.
Things grow and evolve in their own time. So you can relax and trust that ideas will come, that impulses to act will come too. When it is their time to come.
Have you ever tried to force something into being? A project or a relationship? Did it work out? Most certainly not.
So the lesson here is to trust your instincts, trust your feeling for the right timing. The right project, the right relationship. Stop forcing things and go with the flow of ideas growing and evolving in their own time.
Don´t plant seeds in the middle of winter and don´t water your plants when clouds gather over you.